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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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Featured Product: This Easy to Apply KBS Bed Liner Protects Truck Beds and Body Panels And You Can Do It At Home!

We’re big fans of KBS products around here, but if you haven’t seen their products here on BANGshift or haven’t caught up with them at the PRI or SEMA shows, then you need to check...

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Influence & Impact Episode 19 – Jason and Marcel Talk About Obscure Muscle Cars: Buick Grand National, Ford Torino, CTSV, And Muscle Trucks

Remember when a Buick Grand National first came out? Do you remember how they were weird because we were in desperate need of some speed and fun but couldn’t quite wrap our heads around why it...

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Finnegan’s Mystery Drag And Drive Project Car Is Here and So Is The Engine! Can You Guess What It Is? We All Want To Know!

Finnegan has a jillion cool projects going, but he’s been trying to keep this one a bit of a secret while tickling us all with posts on his new engine build over at ACE. He’s going to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Verge Motorsports Quick Outlaw Series – Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday Race

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING is going on at Beech Bend Raceway Park this weekend and it is going to be a hell of a busy one. With the Quick Outlaw Series running both 4.70 door cars and 4.50 dragsters,...

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Incredible Video: Watch A Wingless Sprint Car Take Flight And Nearly Wipe Out The Flagman IN The Flag Stand!

No matter your job or position at the race track, you NEED to be paying attention. I cannot recount how many times I have seen people get lost in their own head for a fraction of a second with often...

Classic and Historic Dragsters: These Cacklers Are The Machines That Birthed Today’s 300mph Wonders

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Feast your eyes on these. Most are cacklers, but all are awesome examples of the glory days of drag racing. The cacklefest is one of the...

Pomona Swap Meet Coverage: More Cool Cars And Trucks For Sale In SoCal

We promised days on end of Pomona Swap Meet coverage and we’re keeping our word here! Continuing on with the massive amount of cars and trucks for sale we have another collection of stuff that...

Watch This Land Rover Handle A Huge Jump With Ease – The Driver Reaction Is Really Weird

Ok so there is something weird about this video. For starters there’s the setting which seems to be kind of exotic in its own right and then there is the setup for the jump which is kind of fun...

Brilliant BangShifty CL Find: This Old Mini-Van Was Made Into An Ice Fishing Hut!

We have to thank BangShifter Stephan Svard for sending us the link to this genius rig that is currently for sale in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We love it because it is simplicity at is finest and it...

Racepak We Are You Profile: Todd Paton – Nitro Racer, Operations Manager – Cool Video

One of the things that I really enjoy about the world of racing and the high performance aftermarket industry that I work in is the fact that no one is here by some happy accident. The people...

This Rockbouncer Does One Of The Most Violent Backflips We’ve Ever Seen!

We’ve seen some stuff from the rockbouncers that would leave our chiropractors ripping their hair out while screaming, “WHY?!”. We’ve seen barrel rolls down the hill that...

Pomona Swap Meet Coverage: More Twisted Steel And Gearhead Appeal From The SoCal Event

We have been providing you with images from the August 2015 Pomona Swap Meet for a couple of days now and that trend will continue for a couple of more days going forward because we have piles of...

Amazing Find! This 1944 Cadillac Flathead V8 Tank Engine Has ZERO Miles On It – For Sale In Crate

Just when you think that all that there is to be found has been, stuff like this jumps up and keeps the hope alive that under every dusty tarp in every dilapidated barn across America has cool stuff...

Future Flash: A Week In The Seat Of A 2015 BMW i8 Provides A Glimpse Into What Lies Ahead

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – It does not look, sound or behave like any other car I have ever spent time in before. It literally causes people to stop and take notice. My kids thought it was a...

Check Out The Takeoff And Landing Distances Of Bobby Breeden’s Plane At Valdez STOL 2015!

Taking off and landing a plane are the two most worrisome times for a pilot. Normally, the best way to handle both situations is a long and wide runway, and no potential chance for obstruction, rogue...

BangShift Goes To Rally School! Team O’Neil Rally School In New Hampshire Teaches The Unteachable

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – You may remember us regaling you with stories about riding shotgun in rally cars a couple of weeks back. The good news is that the rally car riding stuff was only...

Rough Ride Video: Watch Competition Eliminator Racer Dale Giroux Roll Hard In Seattle

One of the things that keep me drawn to drag racing is that you literally never know what is going to happen on the next run. You can go an entire weekend, loading hundreds and hundreds of pairs down...

NSRA Nationals 2015: More Photos From The Humongous Gathering In Louisville

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Here’s kind of a funny story. Last weekend when I was at the Mopar Nationals I got into town a little early. Because I am a drag dork of the highest order I...